Steve Alpert

Biography:

Steve Alpert is a native New Yorker, and worked for many years as a television editor/producer/director before turning to painting  full-time. His artwork covers a wide range of subject matter including land/sea/skyscapes, military, abstract, and portraiture. He would best describe himself as a non conformist who draws from many different moments in Artist life that have inspired and shaped his work. Painting is Steve’s  reverie, his serenity, his never-ending pursuit of who he is.

Artist believes his Contemporary American Military paintings are the foundation of his collection, and a reflection of a defining chapter in his life.  Armed Forces and their families. These paintings have also created welcome opportunities for him to give back—through donations of his artwork. Artist has been able to directly support causes that aid the men and women of our military and their families, including the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation and Fisher House Foundation. Most recently he was honored to receive a nomination for the Congressional Medal of Honor Society’s Distinguished Citizen Award.

Steve Alpert is also an adjunct professor of art to veterans at Fordham University and currently reside with his wife between their two homes in Manhattan and Quogue, Long Island.

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

Home of the Vice-President of the United States, Washington DC
The Italian Embassy, Washington DC
The Collection of the Vatican, Rome, Italy
The Pentagon
The Museum of the United States Marines, Quantico, VA
The Naval War College, Newport, RI
The Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover DE
Union League Club, NY

DFS, Manhattan
Sorokin Gallery, Greenwich CT
Beacon Fine Art, Red Bank NJ
Sargent’s Gallery, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii
Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2024, Southampton NY
Art Expo, New York, Toronto
Red Dot Miami

Collections:
Joseph Grano, Jr, former CEO Paine Webber
Bruce Mosler, former CEO Cushman Wakefield
Dr. Gary Hayes & Maria Reeves Hayes
Dr. Kamal & Chinar Kalsi
Mac and Carol Hyatt
Joe Simone, CEO Simone Development
George and Susan Sard
Matthew Rinklin & Joanna Simone Rinklin
Randy & Susan Dyer
Cynthia Bell-Bucha
Bob & Sharon Dunigan
Dr. Peter Stone
Deborah Forte
Museums:
The Pentagon
The Museum of the United States Marines, Quantico VA
The Naval War College, Newport RI
The Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover DE

Statement:

¨After many years of making highly disciplined and detailed paintings that honor men and women in the US Armed Forces, I wanted to again enjoy the total freedom abstract non-objective painting offers. This is where I began more than 50 years ago.

These paintings were all blank canvases and I had no preconceived notion of what might happen. Each painting is a total improvisation, like jazz. This collection of work is all palette knife, a big departure and new territory for me. The pallet knife has given me a fresh sense of freedom creating
textures which is also very different for me.

Bright color is also where I first began painting at 19, mimicking the vibrancy of color embraced by the French Impressionists who inspired me so. To me, the bright colors embrace vitality and adventure of living a full life.¨